Wendy M Cross

Monash University (Australia) · Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciencess

Background Healthcare workers (HCWs) have been impacted psychologically due to their professional responsibilities over the prolonged era of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The study aimed to identify the predictors of psychological distress, fear, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic among HCWs. Methods A cross-sectional onli...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed enormous psychological discomfort and fear across the globe, including Germany.Objectives To assess the levels of COVID-19 associated psychological distress and fear amongst Southern German population, and to identify their coping strategies.MethodsA cross-sectional survey using an online questionnaire w...

Purpose Research examining psychological well-being associated with COVID-19 in rural/regional Australia is limited. This study aimed to assess the extent of psychological distress, fear of COVID-19, and coping strategies among the attendees in COVID-19 screening clinics at 2 rural Victorian settings. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted...

Background: The current pandemic of COVID-19 impacted the psychological wellbeing of populations globally. Results: A total of 8,559 people participated; mean age (±SD) was 33(±13) years, 64% were females and 40% selfidentified as frontline workers. More than two-thirds (69%) experienced moderate-to-very high levels of psychological distress, which...

Background: The current pandemic of COVID-19 impacted the psychological wellbeing of populations globally. Objectives: We aimed to examine the extent and identify associated factors of psychological distress, fear of COVID-19, and coping. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study across 17 countries during Jun-2020 to Jan-2021. Levels of psycho...

Aims To investigate the status of spiritual care competencies among clinical nurses and their relationships with psychological capital. Background Limited knowledge is about the influence of positive personal characteristics on nurses’ spiritual care competencies. Methods A multicenter cross‐sectional study. 1717 nurses were recruited from nine s...

Abstract Background: The current pandemic of COVID-19 impacted the psychological wellbeing of populations globally. Objectives: We aimed to examine the extent and identify factors associated with psychological distress, fear of COVID-19 and coping. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study across 17 countries during Jun-2020 to Jan-2021. Levels...

Objective To explore the attitudes and experiences of family caregivers concerning their involvement in shared decision-making regarding people diagnosed with schizophrenia. Methods This study used a qualitative descriptive design involving face-to-face semi-structured interviews. Both convenience and purposive sampling were used to recruit family...

Postpartum depression is a serious mental illnessdisorder that occurs after delivery and is one of the most common post‐partum complications. With the increasing popularity and extensive use of smartphones worldwide and the fact that China has become the country with the largest number of smartphone users, it is necessary to have a deep understandi...

This quasi-experimental study aimed to evaluate the positive psychological intervention of recording three good things on alleviating nurses' burnout. Eighty-seven nurses with burnout were recruited. Nurses in the study group recorded three good things using communication tool WeChat for six months, no records were made in the control group. After...

Involving mental health consumers in nursing handover is a recent introduction to practise in acute mental health units. However, implementation must recognize that mental health care is complex and the approach needs to include recovery‐focused philosophies of practice. Evidence shows that nurses and other health professionals consider poor handov...

Background The changes in China’s family planning policy in recent years have led to changes in the age structure of pregnant women, and the prevalence of postpartum depression (PPD) is also on the rise. Cognitive Behaviour Training (CBT) as an effective intervention is widely used for postpartum depression. However, the shortage and health dispari...

Aims and objectives To investigate the prevalence of depression in the third trimester of pregnancy and identify the related demographic risk factors. Background Antenatal depression as a disabling and treatable disease has a wide‐ranging impact on perinatal women and has received extensive attention from researchers. Design A cross‐sectional sur...

Abstract Background: As the number of immigrants grows, The health of Chinese immigrant women, especially their perinatal health, has gradually attracted public attention. Our review has two main purposes. First, estimate the prevalence of postpartum depressive symptoms in Chinese immigrant women, and then determine risk factors for postpartum depr...

Aims and objectives. To investigate burnout among nurses from Australia and China and explore the effects of resilience and turnover intention on nurse burnout between the two countries. Background. Nursing shortages and burnout have become serious problems worldwide in recent years. In both developed and developing countries, such as Australia an...

Aims and objectives To investigate burnout among nurses from Australia and China and explore the effects of resilience and turnover intention on nurse burnout between the two countries. Background Nursing shortages and burnout have become serious problems worldwide in recent years. In both developed and developing countries, such as Australia and...

The involvement of consumers in handover with nurses and other health professionals has been identified as reducing miscommunication between transitions in care and associated with reduction in adverse events in generalist nursing setting. Mental health care is complex and handover practices need to fit with the philosophy of recovery focused pract...

This case study details the use of non-participant observation to explore how nurses recognize when patients in an acute medical hospital ward are dying and how they respond in terms of the care they provide. This study was conducted in 2011 in two wards in one metropolitan acute care hospital in Melbourne, Australia. The complexities, merits, and...

Abstract Aims To explore the state of resilience and its predictors among nurses in mainland China. Background Resilience is considered as an important ability to influence the prevention of job dissatisfaction and burnout. There are few studies on resilience in Chinese nurses, particularly investigating the predictors of resilience. Methods A cros...

Across the world, hospital nurses experience a high level of burnout. Exploring biochemical markers of burnout could help to understand physiological changes and may provide useful evidence for preventing burnout symptoms. The current study included 94 female nurses from one Chinese third-level hospital. The Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey...

Aims and objectives: To identify the effectiveness of education interventions provided for nurses for clinical alarm response and management. Background: Some education has been undertaken to improve clinical alarm response, but the evidence for evaluating effectiveness for nurse education interventions is limited. Design: Systematic review....

I read with interest the recent editorial written by Dave Roberts (Roberts 2016) focusing on the educational preparation, work and regulation of general and mental health nurses and in particular the Australian situation. Roberts notes the importance of the transferability of skills across the two nursing domains and I concur. With comprehensive un...

The nature of nursing work is demanding and can be stressful. Previous studies have shown a high rate of burnout among employed nurses. Recently, efforts have been made to understand the role of resilience in determining the psychological adjustment of employed nurses. A theoretical model of resilience was proposed recently that includes several co...

Background Nursing students will graduate into stressful workplace environments and resilience is an essential acquired ability for surviving the workplace. Few studies have explored the relationship between resilience and the degree of innate dispositional mindfulness, compassion, compassion fatigue and burnout in nursing students, including those...

Building nurses’ resilience to complex and stressful practice environments is necessary to keep skilled nurses in the workplace and ensuring safe patient care. A unified theoretical framework titled Health Services Workplace Environmental Resilience Model (HSWERM), is presented to explain the environmental factors in the workplace that promote nurs...

Nursing students across the globe experience depressive symptoms and many interventions have been used to alleviate their depression. However, few interventions focus on students’ personal strengths and advantages. The aim of the present study was to explore the effects of an Eight-Week Group Positive PsychoTherapy (PPT) program on depression and s...

The introduction of mixed gender wards that have permeated Australian hospitals in recent years may have begun as an ill-conceived experiment, but their continued existence despite expressed patients' wishes is an affront to modern health service provision. While the UK has witnessed an uproar resulting in a ban on mixed gender wards, Australian se...

Background: Obstetrics remains the largest medico-legal liability in healthcare. Neither an increasing awareness of patient safety nor a long tradition of reporting obstetric outcomes have reduced either rates of medical error or obstetric litigation. International debate continues about the best approaches to measuring and improving patient safet...

The quality of undergraduate nursing education is essential to producing graduates that are safe and effective practitioners, relevant to the broader contexts of care. National accreditation standards are focused on ensuring the quality of nursing programs in terms of public interest and safety. To ensure that nursing programs achieve the outcomes...

Aims and objectivesTo examine the perceptions of a group of culturally and linguistically diverse participants with the comorbidities of diabetes, chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease to determine factors that influence their medication self-efficacy through the use of motivational interviewing.Background These comorbidities are a glob...

Background Ensuring safe and appropriate service delivery is central to a high quality maternity service. With this in mind, over recent years much attention has been given to the development of evidence-based clinical guidelines, staff education and risk reporting systems. Less attention has been given to assessing staff perceptions of a service¿s...

This paper discusses processes used in undertaking a grounded theory study on designing undergraduate nursing curricula in the context of national accreditation requirements. The authors report on the experiences of undertaking this research and in so doing, address important issues such as philosophically positioning the researcher in a grounded t...

Introduction: Many health services with Intensive Care Units have developed ward liaison programs, managed by Outreach Nurses, to facilitate the transition for patients between the intensive care and general wards. This paper reports a case study of clinical supervision for two Outreach Nurses as they adapted to their new, largely autonomous role...

newton j.m., jolly b.c., ockerby c.m. & cross w.m. (2012) Student centredness in clinical learning: the influence of the clinical teacher. Journal of Advanced Nursing68(10), 2331–2340. Aim. This article reports a longitudinal study examining how nursing students learn on clinical placements in three cohorts of undergraduates at a large Australian u...

bloomer mj, moss c & cross wm (2011)Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness 3, 165–173 End-of-life care in acute hospitals: an integrative literature review Aim. To explore and define the current status of published literature related to end-of-life care in the acute hospital setting. Background. Chronic illness is now the leading caus...

Over the last decade several innovative approaches to enhance students' transition to graduate nurse year have been implemented or piloted. This paper describes a study that investigated how the social practices of clinical partnership placement model underpin workplace learning for undergraduate students as they transitioned to graduate. A mixed m...

Clinical nurse consultants have been a part of the nursing workforce for some time however a lack of clarity regarding this role has led to significant variations in health service expectations, workloads and scope for the Clinical nurse consultants working within this metropolitan health service. The aim of this study was to explore the role of th...

This literature review summarises the history of patient safety initiatives in health-care systems around the world. The need to improve patient safety is commonly called for following interrogation of data captured as a measure of patient safety including audit, clinical indicator reporting and evaluation methods. Many such reports exist for mater...

We are often confronted with the dilemmas of interacting with people from different cultural backgrounds. How do we ensure that we meet their needs, if they have some barriers to communicating those needs? This project explores the communication mechanisms used by mental health clinicians, to explore how they modify their communication to reconcile...

This paper discusses the psychosocial impact of being diagnosed with hepatitis C virus (HCV). The paper clarifies some of the key misconceptions about the virus, especially the impact HCV has on people who have been recently diagnosed. An individual's reaction to the HCV diagnosis and the subsequent lifestyle challenges to maintain health, well-bei...

This paper is a report of the psychometric testing of the Clinical Learning Environment Inventory. The clinical learning environment is a complex socio-cultural entity that offers a variety of opportunities to engage or disengage in learning. The Clinical Learning Environment Inventory is a self-report instrument consisting of 42 items classified i...

Novice nurses encounter numerous factors that impact on their learning in the complex healthcare workplace. Registered nurses often work one‐on‐one with novices as preceptors to facilitate the development of novices’ clinical skills and socialisation into the profession. This paper explores the concept of preceptorship from novice nurses’ and prece...